Partnerships Senior Account Manager

Partnerships Senior Account Manager

Duration:
Contract (12-month maternity cover)

Location:

Gaydon

Our clients’ TCS Racing is part of the Clients’ Motorsport department and competes in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. The Motorsport and TCS Racing sits within the CEO / Chief of Staff function and is responsible for all strategy, planning and delivery of successful motor sport activities for both the Company brands. Within this function is the Motorsport Partnerships & Sponsor ships department whose responsibility includes identifying, sourcing, activation and management of the Clients' Motorsport's commercial partners.

The role is a 12‑month maternity cover for a Partnerships Senior Account Manager position, who will have responsibility for management of existing partners and their marketing activation planning, execution and measurement.

• Manage commercial partnership activation within the Clients' Motorsport function including marketing, communications, PR, experiential and hospitality activity.
• Lead regular partner status/planning meetings and workshops, including facilitation of senior review meetings.
• Develop partner marketing campaigns and associated PR/Communications activity, working with the Clients' Motorsport PR & Communications department on media programmes and partner content development.
• Manage partner brand approvals process and ongoing review process.
• Deliver partner events and hospitality both at race and away from race environments, working with the Clients' Motorsport Events team.
• Track annual rights and manage contractual deliverables for all partners.
• Measure and evaluate, including partner reporting, utilising agency strategy and consultancy team support.
• Manage activation programme and rights fees finance, invoicing and reporting.
• Maintain core process management for partner rights delivery (e.g., asset hubs, approval processes).
• Support partner activation including show cars, senior management/driver/team appearances and asset requirements at race and out-of-race events.

• Proven excellent experience in the sports/motor sport sponsorship industry.
• Excellent communication skills – both spoken and written.
• Experience of successful stakeholder management.
• Experience of financial planning, budget management.
• Experience of successful strategic partnership campaign development.
• Strong ability to prioritise a pressured workload to meet tight deadlines.
• Proactive, responsive and flexible approach, with the ability to operate outside the sphere of prescribed role if required.
• Commercially astute – used to working in a global motor sport and sport business environment.
• Highly developed negotiation skills.
• Experience in communications, PR, social media and/or events and hospitality delivery.
• PC skills & Web-based knowledge.
• Ability to drive in the UK.

• University degree or equivalent preferred.